Left-wing anarchists vow to spill blood on Athens streets

Forensic officers inspect the car of the former Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos after an explosion last MayCOSTAS BALTAS/REUTERS

Anarchists who have claimed responsibility for a series of bombings in Athens have threatened to bring bloodshed to the streets. It follows the arrest of Dinos Yiatzoglou, 29, who is accused of attempting to kill Lucas Papademos, a former prime minister, with a letter bomb last year.

“If anything happens to Dinos — if he dies — then expect bloodshed on the streets of Athens,” the group calling itself Anarchists said in a post published on a far-left website yesterday.

It claimed responsibility for a blast at a police station and dozens of petrol bomb attacks in the centre of Athens. “These attacks are part of a wave of ongoing hits in Athens in solidarity with Dinos,” the group said. Nobody was hurt in those…

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